Oh yeah the ride was a total of about 414 miles (436 if you did the optional century) terrain was rolling for most of it. The director said he wants the participants to go away with the notion that NoDak is neither flat nor cold!

The sunflower fields were in bloom lending a beautiful foreground to the blue skies. I live here and still rejoice in the beauty of North Dakota.

One girl from California wasn't too impressed saying there wasn't anything to look at and her friend and riding partner a native NoDak told her "well you may as well not come back because you can't see or appreciate the subtle beauty that is here.

On the flip side a gal we hooked up with on Day 2 from Philly PA absolutely loved it out here the open spaces, lack of traffic and the beauty of everything.

If nothing else it was interesting IDing the road kill (hen pheasant, grouse, coyote, fox, porcupine, skunk, racoon, one man said rattle snake but i doubt it we were on the east side of the Missouri, around here they are usually on the west side, it was probably a bull snake that look like rattlers)

Well I could go on and on and I need to go to bed I am VERY tired